fox news is america s election headquarters and long serving utah senator orrin hatch now has to face a primary battle to keep his job. he has had it for six terms. this after he came just under the number of delegates needed today to win his party s nomination and senator hatch needed 60% of the vote in today s convention and snead got just above 59%, 50 votes short, forcing him into a fight with challenger and former state senator, dan lundquist. and he got 40% of the delegates and until today political watchers assumed he d easily win the nomination and he s trying for his 7th term. casey steegel, more now, a surprise, coming up inside the fox report when we revisit the story. and, there is a new report president obama is having a tough time drumming up the kinds of campaign donations he raised in 2008. the new york times reporting
acceptable to the voters, that s for sure. shannon breen. thank you. jenna: we are awaiting a major announcement from the so-called go big coalition. we re more than a week until the bipartisan super-committee s deadline for a deal to rein in spending and help solve the debt crisis. now you have this large group of senators and house members who are urging the super-committee to go big and pass a major deal that has tax increases and big cuts and they say go big coalition, they say they will back whatever happens here. congressman mike simpson joining us, republican from idaho. michael bennet a democrat from colorado. nice to have both of your perspectives. senator bennet, this is your first term. congressman, i believe this is your 7th term. don t mean to make you feel old. you re the veteran, maybe i start with you, congressman. what is the major announcement we re going to hear in a couple of hours? we ll get together with the senators. this is the first time the house go big coal
presidential candidate, he has been in the 7th term in the house, in the congress as long as john f. kennedy, and as long as bill clinton was governor of arkansas, and mastered the budget process and rubio i heard give a speech and he is terrific. and ryan-rush i rubio. neil: some would say rubio-ryan. guest: ryan has more experience, and a year older. it would be exciting. and i have been struck, a little lighthearted but get people thinking about it. the amount of response has been amazing. tons of e-mails. yes, way to go. can we get them? where do i send my contribution? real enthusiasm and it strike me a little bit, maybe this is a little bit of the case, but unhappiness with the frontrunners and a yearning for
are going up next year. julie kirtz, thanks so much and wall street is taking a very close look what s going on in washington and what lawmakers will do, whether they extend these tax cuts or not and we re going to get into it more with charles payne at the fox business network, stay tuned for that. the field of competitors in the race to be chicago s next mayor is getting more and more crowded. the day after former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel declares his candidacy as we reported on the fox report, congressman danny davis and state senator james meek just in the race today. that brings the total to six candidates all hoping to succeed current mayor richard daley. he decided not to run for a 7th term. the election is set for february. cops arresting a man for dwi and you will not believe who gets the handcuffs and to baseball with babe ruth s autograph on the auction block. those two stocks as we go across america.
one business was leveled and 24 others need to be inspected. twitter a tool for terrorists. members of congress are calling to shut down the accounts of groups including hamas and hezbollah. one of the law americas leading that effort is a texas congressman. he made a similar demand back in september. the groups don t have a right to use an american company to promote terrorism through the world. they will respond to members of congress directly. fox news learned west virginia republican shelly moore capita will announce her candidacy for u.s. senate. she was select to do her 7th term will run for jay rockefeller s seat. he has held the seat since 1984 but has not said if he will run